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I read on the wiki that loot and zombies don't spawn while driving around in a vehicle. I was wondering, do unclaimed or broken vehicles also not spawn? I've been riding around on an old bike trying to find another vehicle and havent. I was wondering if this might be why. Thanks for the help, as always.

So after playing the game for about 3 weeks and not finding any vehicles at all. Last night i played on this server, as I was running towards kamenka on the main roads I see a bunch of vehicles. I'm talking about, heli, bus, cars, trucks, boats, atv ect. I ran closer, see two dead guys, and one of them had a gun that i've never seen or read about before. I picked up the gun and drove off with an atv, did a quick search and found out that the gun was a hack gun so I immediately dropped it. Is it me or something fishy is going on with this server.

We all need a fresh start. Things have gotten past the point of stupidity. Tents are everywhere with uber military grade items that respawn every 6 hours (reset). Vehicles are hoarded by clans or hidden off the map and every second noob is running around with an AS50, not to mention the amount of hacked in items. Please wipe and restart from scratch.

I know its already been posted that vehicles and tents are not saving inventory but my vehicles are not saving at all. It took about 10 days to get them to spawn in the first place and now they do not save on our server. When vehicles started spawning we found 2 atv's, Truck, Bus a Vs3 and several bikes and since then a few of them disappear at a time when server reboots. Its extremely frustrating to search ALL DAY for vehicles fixing them and such only to have them vanish the next time server reboots. As a clan we have each spent probably 6 days total trying to find vehicles for our clan and we either come up completely empty handed or it vanishes the next day. I'm really starting to think i am completely wasting my time here. 3 weeks owning a server now and nothing to show for it whatsoever. We have basically no camp, no vehicles and clan members have completely lost interest in the game. Tents and Vehicles need to be fixed or people will just give up and snipe each other all day...oh wait that's happened already, never mind.

So the other night we upgraded our server to 1.7.2.5. We find the blue van, fix it up and take it to camp. The next day we start our sever and the blue van is gone, but now we have a motorcycle we did not have before. Then I find a UAZ, fix it up and take it back to camp. The next day when we start the sever the UAZ is gone but now we have a bus in our camp. WTF? Later while playing we find the blue van back where we originally found it in need of repairs as if we never touched it. Anyone else have issues like this on thier sever?

Ok so me and my mate have basically been EVERYWHERE on the game and are currently In Zelenograd and have yet to find a single vehicle in a little over a month! Why is this? I found a bike ONCE but that's it and I had to leave it because bike are one-seaters. Also where is this supposed "parking garge" in zelenogorsk? I havnt seen it yet

Today I installed Play withSIX and DayZ 1.7.2.5 and my player was killed by a sniper 5min after I started playing (I Had everything Ghillie, NVG, M107, GPS, Rangefinder...). So I spawned in Balota and I fount next to the airstrip on the road a motorcycle with full gas and in a great condition, I drove to Cherno and there I found 1 Off-road Pickup and 2 Military Troops Carriers like the Ural Civilian but Military, all of them in great condition and filled with gas, All of them on the same server. Next server I fount in Stary Sobor UAZ and Heli same in great condition filled with gas, So me and my friend flew to NE Airstrip we found there a motorcycle again in great condition and filled with gas, And all these vehicles are with empty gear so they are unused, Is it cuz of the patch? CUZ THIS IS AMAZING I LOVE IT XD I have a Off-road in one server on the other I have a motorcycle and a Helicopter :D And why I cant see my backpack and I have the Old bandit mask? I spawned with it and I killed only 1 dude.

I honestly have no idea how it works :D If I find a car and drive it somewhere safe, then change servers. will that car be there next time I go play? what does the 'save car' option do? also tents, do they work cross-server? Me and my friends were in elektro and we found an abandoned bus on the church doorway, I wen't in decided it was too broken to be fixed.. shortly after that we stopped playing and I came back few hours later to another server and that bus was still there

I have noticed that in ARMA II there is a distinct lack of being able to flip ATVs. It is annoying when an ATV is on its side and you cant access it, especially if this is your only form of transport. You should be able to flip an ATV, as it is realistic and due to not being able to flip them over, people lose interest in them. Does anyone agree that flipping atvs should be put in the game?

US 2124 started about a week ago, brand new server and everything. I've installed everything correctly and everything works just fine. All except the vehicles. Tents, Buildings everything spawns perfectly fine except Vehicles. My group and I have scanned the map for our 4th time with nothing. crashed helis spawn, and everything but no vehicles. What could be causing this problem? Any ideas?

So, yesterday at around 20:05, me and my 2 friends snatched a heli and bus from a group on de399. Within a couple of hours we stole an URAL truck and GAZ. We set up a camp with 4 tents, and stashed all the gear there, and drowe the vehicles away and fooled around in the chopper. After the next server restart at 02:00, all our tents was emty ( shit happens, either stolen or bugged ). We checked all the places the vehicles had been before the reset, and they were all there again, exactly same loot, and exactly the same positions. Once again we emty it all into our own tents, but this time we destroyed all the vehicles exept for the chopper. After the next server restart, all our tents are emty again, beside one of then wich has some minor items in it. Allright we were looted. However, when checking a couple of the previous vehicle spawns, the URAL and GAZ was right back, with ALL the loot intact, even all the minor stuff. Any good reasons for vehicles and loot to behave this way? All the server restarts weren't manual, scheduled restarts.

I was wondering what my little squad should bring with us when we go to hunt for vehicles. Do we need to have everything on hand to repair a vehicle fully? Engine Parts - (6 inventory slots) Main Rotary Parts - (6 inventory slots) Fuel Tank Parts - (4 inventory slots) Wheel x 4 - (24 inventory slots each) Scrap Metal - (3 inventory slots) Jerry Can with Gasoline - (3 inventory slots) That's 46 slots of gear spread between the three people in our squad. I just want to make sure we need to collect all this and drag it around the country-side before we start. Also, how does someone find a vehicle? From what I've heard, you can always steal one from a clan camp in the far West or North but they tend to reset the server as you drive away, if they don't manage to shoot you first. What would some of the more experienced players recommend to help my group get our first vehicle?

I dunno is this a problem with the version or with the server, but by some reason at DE 196 everytime when the server restarts the contents of tents/vehicles will go back to what it was like day or 2 ago. At least 4 or 5 restarts have done this so far. Anybody know what the issue could be?

No other way to describe this but on my server these randomly don't spawn and force me to do another restart. Which is a pain since it restarts four times a day and it's not exactly something easy to monitor without going to a supposed campsite. Anyone else getting this issue?

As the topic says, Im curious as to when Vehicles reset, If its when a server restarts or if its just when a server actually goes down and stays down for sometime, Or if its at a different time all together. Cheers, Wayne

Hi there, I know this has been raised in other posts, but so far I cannot see any recognition there is an issue, or a resolution (of course the Devs are busy, but so are server admins at present!) Running on with the following build 1.7.2.5 95913, little background to the situation: - Helicopter found, repaired and flown back to base while on previous Day Z release - Battle Eye Script restriction kicks pilot out of chopper, him and other occupants die a horrible death - Chopper not seen since, server running for around 11 days since 'the accident' I've read conflicting information on the forums, and other suggestions that we're not supposed to know the dynamics of the loot cycle etc; but the issue is I have a user base that are asking questions around where the helicopter they worked on went to, and I don't have any answers. Is it 7 days? Does the script restriction issue have any bearing on the respawn? The server has of course being restarted a couple of times, does this restart the loot cycle? The second issue since updating that has been reported is that vehicles are randomly being turned into cycles on a server restart, with the original vehicle back at I can only presume the location it was left before the update, since then people have had long trips back up north to find the vehicle where they started out. An example of this - - Riding a motorcycle, crashed into a lake (lol) bike eventually blows up and disappears, this was on previous day z release - Motorcycle not in original spawn location, nor sited anywhere else on the map, wind forward a week - Update carried out to 1.7.2.5. Userbase find a Civilian Carrier at the quarry, fix up and take back to Story - Server restarted this evening with new battle eye scripts.txt, motorbike appears in story next to an Ural that has actually stayed around for a while! - Civilian carrier reported missing, found later at quarry - Server restarted on schedule, Ural used to go check for civilian carrier has turned into a cycle bike, and still no helicopter I can really appreciate that it is all go for the Dev's at the moment, but as mentioned it is for us and I don't know where to turn to. Posts on this forum are clouded with so many different reports that it must be impossible to correlate events I know - but there never seems to be any recognition of an issue from any type of authority. To date, I have spent more time actually parsing logs, checking for hackers, banning hackers, restarting the server, dealing with questions from my user base that I cannot answer, mitigating skiddie udp floods after a ban, than I have actually playing the game! I know the mod is in alpha, and server admins appreciate this by dedicating resource & money to provide the data and bug reports needed, but at present there is no information coming back to assist us in trying to get a smooth user experience. I've known of 3 people personally that have stopped playing until the game plays like it did 2 or 3 weeks ago; and these are people that contribute towards the cost of running a server. Without a smooth user experience people will be just reluctant to contribute in a positive manner to the development of the game. Please can we just have some clarification around what, if anything, we need to do to resolve this?

Hey! Our guys logged onto our server today, just to find out that all camps and vehicles disappeared. We are asking ourselves if there was a server-wipe or if it is a saving-bug withing the hive, since I read a lot of inconsistent posts about bugs that occured after 1.7.2.5, making me believe that there is a problem on how data is saved. Would be glad to receive input on this! Thanks!

1. I think zombies should be more of a threat. At the moment, considering all players would work together, hell would it be boring :/ Going into a city and looting is too easy, there are too few zeds, and if you are working in group, ur fiercest enemy is the loot, because theres too much empty tin cans :/ 2. There must be more bicycles. Really, in cherno and electro there should be up to 5 and in the smaller villages there should be about 1-2 spots, but therefore no bicycles outside settlements.The thing is, it takes way too long to cross the map, but u need to in order to get to the norhtern lootspots. The game gets boring if you see 80% of the time empty forests. Once the max player count reaches 200 maybe this wont be a problem, but then you really need more bicycles because otherwise you have huge spots of death in southern regions, whilest in the northern regions theres almost nothing but annoying campers who snipe the airfields and stary. At the moment the gameplay is in quite a desolat constitution.Its really funny the very first times you loot barnes, cherno, elektro and so on, but it gets boring once youve done this a few times and you realize that any sort of action takes place only in cherno and elektro, and outside them theres just a quick sniperdeath or an empty zombievoid, which absorbs all the fun via ridonculous traveltimes through wastelands. The game is about survival, of course, but its also about fast paced action. We are not playing arma here but a mod, which simulates civilians in an apocalypse. Chaos must spread, but at the moment this chaos gets stuck in a far too easy early game and a boring endgame. PvP should stay a core aspect in Dayz, but it shoudnt be the only way of lategame, because therefore you simply die too quickly and it takes too long to get you back on the road, unless you grap that winchester and kill anything you can and then die again.

Once upon a time I happened to come across a beaten up UAZ in Starry Sobor, and needless to say, I was overjoyed.. So I spent the last few hours finding parts and fixing this thing up only to have the server restart and delete my car... I saved it numerous times and only needed 2 wheels on the thing and it would have been complete.. Needless to say I am very frustrated right now and I would like some answers.. Whether good or bad I don't care.. Will it come back after next server restart or is it gone for good? And for anyone that is going to say *It's alpha don't complain.* or *Bugs happen, deal with it.* Please go troll somebody else's post I really don't want you responding to this. Only serious posts please I would like an answer without getting hassled by internet warriors..

Lost two tents and a bus. Logged out 9 hours ago, and different locations. Scavenging seems pointless at the moment.

Hey there, having a new server since 7 days now, did multiple restarts and checked spawns all over the map every day with 5ppl. Never ever found a single car. What is wrong with it? It starts to get annoying like hell.

HI! Today, me and my clanmates found 2 vehicles. We saved it many times in the same location on a german server. Few seconds before restart vehicles was there. Unfortunately, after server restart our vehicles gone ;-/ Happened 2 times. The question is: Is it server fault or patch fault? Does anybody know?

In an effort to determine whether I have the worst luck when it comes to vehicles, or if server admins are deliberately protecting their clan's vehicles, I put together a little poll. Please take a few seconds to fill it out, I think it would be valuable to know if getting kicked or reset for finding vehicles is a common problem.

Hello, Yesterday we got out Instance ID for our new server and noticed that there are very few vehicles: - Chopper - Both off-road pickups - Bicycles - Slow crap cars (Like the yellow one on north-west) But I noticed that many good cars haven't spawned at all in the server in any of their spawns such as the Ural, the V3S, the UAZ.. Any idea as to why this is happening? Do I need to contact DayZ support or just wait?

Well known YouTuber Seananners knowingly takes and uses spawned in hacked weapons and vehicles (eg chopper) in his recent DayZ video: